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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful ad and magazine illustrator and he is often called the main inventor of Pop art movement. Through his visual art movement, Pop art, he explored the relationship between celebrity culture, advertisement and artistic expression. During his time, Warhol ventured into different varieties of art forms including video installations and performance art. He was often criticized for blurring the lines between mainstream media and fine art.

Warhol's early life

Born as Andrew Warhola, his parents were Slovakian immigrants. His mother was an embroiderer and his father was a construction worker. When Warhol was 8, he was diagnosed with Cholera was bedridden was several months. It was during this that Warhol's mother who was also an artist, started giving him his first drawing lessons. When he was 9, his mother bought him a camera and Warhol soon started experimenting with photography.

Warhol graduated from Carnegie Institute for Technology with a degree in Bachelor of Arts. In 1949, he moved to New York and got a job at the prestigious Glamour magazine. It was during this time that he decided to change his name from Andrew Warhola to Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol's Career

During his stint at the Glamour magazine, Warhol won many awards for his unique and whimsical style and he was also touted as one of the most successful commercial artists of his time. It was in the beginning of 1961 that Warhol instroduced the concept of pop art to the world, they were paintings that were meant to be commercially produced.

These were small canvas paintings which were suitably planted on consumer goods. This brought a sudden limelight on both Andy Warhol and Pop art. The reason why Warhol's art got so famous was because it was easily relatable. His paintings has everything from Coco-Cola bottles to vacuum cleaners and hamburgers. He also painted famous celebrities in very garish and vivid colours. His list of celebrities includes Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley and Mick Jagger. In fact, his painting 'Eight Elvises' was resold in $100 million in 2008.

In 1964, Warhol opened 'The Factory', his very own art studio in New York and it soon became the city's major hotspot. His studio was the place where all the lavish parties were held and there were attended by the New York elite.

In 1968, during the peak of his career, Warhol was shot by a woman Valerie Solanis who was an aspiring writer and a feminist. Warhol nearly survived but he had to spend weeks in a hospital to recover completely.

Andy Warhol went on to publish several books and produced over 60 films. During the 1980s, he moved on to television with shows like Andy Warhol's Fifteen minutes and Andy Warhol's TV.

Warhol died at the age of 58 on February 22 nd, 1987.

"Once you 'got' pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought pop, you could never see America the same way again." - Andy Warhol

Paintings by Andy Warhol

Marilyn Monroe

Coco Cola

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https://www.artnation.world/articles/the-founder-of-pop-art-andy-warhol/

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/warhols-pop-politics-89185734/

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http://www.poparthistory.com/andy-warhol.html

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Bright and flashy colours
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weird looking about famous things around the world like people animals

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Something that pops out and gets you attention. they can be colourful